Howard Zinn Quotes About Independence

Quotes about: Independence

• They were not mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, they were absent in the Constitution and they were invisible in the new political democracy. They were the women of early America.

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  America, Political, Independence

  Howard Zinn (2014). “A People's History of the United States”, p.91, Pan Macmillan

• But human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what they see as injustice that they dare to declare their independence. In that historical possibility lies hope.

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  Powerful, Lying, Historical

  Howard Zinn (2010). “You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times”, p.162, Beacon Press

• Surely, if it is the right of the people to "alter or abolish," it is their right to criticize, even severely, policies they believe destructive of the ends for which government has been established. This principle, in the Declaration of Independence, suggests that true patriotism lies in supporting the values the country is supposed to cherish: equality, life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness. When our government compromises, undermines, or attacks those values, it is being unpatriotic.

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  Country, Lying, Believe

  Howard Zinn (2013). “A Power Governments Cannot Suppress”, p.112, City Lights Books

• In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli.

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  Wall, Independence, United States

  Howard Zinn (2001). “Howard Zinn on War”, p.127, Seven Stories Press

• The democratic principle, enunciated in the words of the Declaration of Independence, declared that government was secondary, that the people who established it were primary. Thus, the future of democracy depended on the people, and their growing consciousness of what was the decent way to relate to their fellow human beings all over the world.

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  Government, People, Independence

  Howard Zinn (2015). “A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present”, p.682, Routledge

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